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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Lazy Sunday Service

Last week was exhausting, especially the trip to the Netherlands. I barely got to see The Hague, but did manage to explore Rotterdam a little and really took to the place. An old industrial, port city that was flattened during the Second World War and is still being re-developed, especially around the old docks. It has some very striking modern architecture. I stayed in the Hotel New York, the old offices of Holland Amerika Lijn building, and had a great room full of character and a view of the harbour (with a bathroom that was in the old service elevator). When I wasn't busy meeting people or giving talks, I spent time reading Benjamin Black's Elegy for April, an atmospheric tale set in 1950s Dublin.

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I'm a professor at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and the author of four crime novels and two collections of short stories, and author or editor of 25 academic books and a 12 volume encyclopedia. My passions are reading and writing crime fiction and undertaking research on social issues. The other blogs I contribute to are Ireland After NAMA and The Programmable City.